– Be sure to articulate a clear thesis. – Support your arguments with primary sources. – Remember to quote and cite your sources appropriately following a standard format, e.g., “[…] universal caring and mutual benefit are both profitable and easy beyond all measure.” (CP, p. 85)

General directions:– Be sure to articulate a clear thesis.– Support your arguments with primary sources.– Remember to quote and cite your sources appropriately following a standard format, e.g., “[…] universal caring and mutual benefit are both profitable and easy beyond all measure.” (CP, p. 85)– Since all the texts needed for the paper are in your assigned readings and handouts, no bibliography is needed. However, if you cite or quote from works which are not part of the assigned readings then you should include a bibliography.Paper prompt:– Several of the legends and stories in the course pack feature gendered metaphors for the relationship between the ruler and people who aspire to serve as official and/or advisors to him.– Somewhere in your paper you need to provide an analysis of the gendered metaphors in the Wáng Zhāojūn story.– How does source domain (love relationship between man and woman) inform the target domain (relationship between ruler and official/advisor)?– In your analysis of the uses of gendered metaphors for the relationship between ruler and official/advisor compare the Wáng Zhāojūn story with two or more stories from the course pack (volume I and II) that contains similar gendered metaphors.– Why were such metaphors used? How do they relate to the theme of being known or recognized?– Aim for explanatory depth rather than descriptive breadth. (Find differences or opposites, not things that are alike, avoid lists. Analysis is key.) Support your arguments with well-selected quotations from primary sources.– Make sure that you answer all the questions in the prompt. You can be creative in the way you structure your arguments, select examples to illustrate your points, and so forth. That is, you do NOT have to organize your paper around the Wáng Zhāojūn story. Indeed, this may not be the best strategy.– Make sure to use a primary source quotation to support your analysis. Paraphrasing sources and citing them is also acceptable. But your paper should include a few primary source quotations.